1. What if parents decided to clone a child in order to harvest organs? 2. As an alternative to live organ donation, Vickie Hurewitz advocated a change in how organs are harvested when people die. 3. At the same time, health care companies conclude there is limited profit in engineering new drugs and in harvesting organs for transplants in humans from genetically engineered animals. 4. A body may be declared brain dead, yet must be still alive for its organs to be harvested. 5. But as frustration over the current standard grows, there is already an increasing temptation to harvest organs from brain-dead patients anyway, despite the legal risks. 6. Many people could also avoid the emotional suffering that they experience when brain-dead relatives and friends are kept on life support systems until their organs can be harvested. 7. One message warns travelers to beware of a band of scalpel-wielding criminals who harvest organs from tourists and traveling business types. 8. Rebekkah had wanted her organs to be harvested. 9. Taiwan also harvests organs from executed prisoners, albeit with strict consent requirements, as do some South American countries. 10. That attitude angers some doctors and many patients, but, nonetheless, pancreas transplants are not often performed, and more organs are harvested than used. |